Manufacturing Industry
Investment in Michigan tied to growth: $150 million R&D center is planned for York Township.(TOYOTA MOTOR CORP.)
Industry Week, August, 2005 by McClenahen, John S.
BY MARCH 2009, Japan's Toyota Motor Corp. could be displaying a $150 million state-of-the-art R&D center in York Township, Mich., directly west of Detroit and about 15 minutes from the city's Metropolitan Airport. The project, now in the due diligence stage, is expected to create 677 jobs, 400 directly and, estimates [degrees] the University of Michigan, another 277 indirectly as a result of increased economic activity.
The center is to be sited on 711 acres of what is now state owned land and once the site of a psychiatric hospital.
Toyota is not a newcomer to Michigan. Its Toyota Technical Center USA Inc. (TTC) was established in 1977 and has its headquarters in Ann Arbor. In 2004, Toyota completed work on its Calty Design Research Studio next to...
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